Outline Plan

What is an Outline Plan?

The outline plan is a detailed, scale plan of a garden’s framework indicating hard landscaped areas, with perspective drawings, and construction drawings if required. It also shows areas to be planted such as trees, beds and lawns.

An Outline Plan involves the following steps:

Initial visit

This is a chance for us to meet and discuss your project - your ideas, tastes and expectations from the new design. An assessment of the site will be made (measuring the site, taking photographs and recording information which will affect the design) in order to draw up a preliminary plan.

A second meeting to discuss the preliminary plan provides the opportunity for you to crystallise your thoughts. I leave the plan with you so you can 'live' with the proposed garden for a while, to mark out features and for you to consider any changes you may wish to make. A final meeting to discuss any modifications ensures the final plans will result in a garden which endures for many years to come.

Outline plans are priced individually and quotes are free.

Transforming a mature town house garden.

A small town garden in Tavistock which loses the sun at around 2 o'clock in the afternoon and overlooked by three-storey houses opposite. The brief was to surmount these problems! Two seating areas have been created - a terrace nearest the door provides adequate space for sitting around a table whilst a lower terrace allows relaxation in the late afternoon sun. Emphasis is placed on vertical height (metal arches and rope swags on posts with roses) to make the garden feel larger and provide screening from neighbours.

Outline plan of a small, overlooked town garden in Tavistock

The mature garden

A Cobbled Courtyard

A small front garden in Tavistock which was originally an uninviting slope with soil blocking the cast iron air vents of the house. A cobbled courtyard with a pebble mosaic was laid over a large soak-away filled with gravel to accommodate water which collected in the courtyard.

Outline plan of a small courtyard garden in Tavistock, cobbled and with a pebble mosaic

The completed cobbled courtyard